Found in my travels today

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I had a Tandy 1000! No Hard drive! My mom thought it was too pricey, and it was an option at the time! So I booted from a floppy disk! I set mine up to uselessly track stars, eventually running an algorithm on loop. I sold mine for $100.00 because I did this and some other Techy geek thought it was cool.

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Fit-Razzmatazz410@reddit

FLOPPIES

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BlackHoles_NCC1701D@reddit

Thank you for the correction! I had a friend who was upset that I misspelled this back in the day! Although I did not do this intentionally, your correction took me back... way back!

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Fit-Razzmatazz410@reddit

No no, I just hadn't heard that term in a while. Made me giggle. Have a nice evening.

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50YearsofFailure@reddit

I was fixing the youngest's RC car a couple years ago. I was really hoping it didn't need a new capacitor and was thinking this is why RadioShack existed. I cleaned up on components when they went out of business but I've used or lost a lot of them in moves, helping family, etc. Fortunately it was just a loose connection from the power supply, nothing a little solder couldn't fix.

MicroCenter's nice and all, but they just don't have the components RadioShack had. Or the old-timer behind the counter that could walk you right to what you needed - and tell you to buy two because sometimes this brand lays a dud.

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Ahkhira@reddit

I was thinking the same thing.

Where else could you find loose resistors and capacitors if you blew something up?

I like restoring "vintage" video game systems, and waiting for stuff to come in the mail takes all of the fun out of things.

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50YearsofFailure@reddit

I did that for a while in the early days of Ebay. NES systems almost always needed a new heatsink and they were good as new. Sega Gamegear had a known capacitor issue.

Retro-gaming was in its formative years at that point but there was enough supply and demand that it was worth it. I could buy those systems at a thrift store for a couple bucks and sell them for $50 after 10 minutes of work and .50 worth of parts. Decent side-hustle until the scammers started hitting Ebay hard.

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TheBklynGuy@reddit

I used to buy CB radio equipment from them. Great memories of talking to truck drivers. The skip phenomenon was cool too. Breaker breaker!!

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She_Wolf_0915@reddit

I miss them very much in So Cal. It was a great place for moms due to their technical knowledge, and advice.

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RabidRobb@reddit

Where is this?

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Grunge4U@reddit (OP)

Cle Elum Washington

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RabidRobb@reddit

Thank you

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Anybody_Outthere@reddit

Were you driving a DeLorean?

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Grunge4U@reddit (OP)

The way i see if you're going to build a time machine into a car, you might as well do it with style.

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CrazyDogMomof4@reddit

Radio Shack will be the place that rebuilds society after the apocalypse because they have Everything We Were Told to Throw Away.

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karlhungusjr@reddit

we have a MicroCenter in my area and everytime I go there I can't help but think "this is what radioshack should have been".

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therelybare5@reddit

MicroCenter seems more like Circuit City with the hard sell and people on the floor trying to put their stickers on your purchases.

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karlhungusjr@reddit

i disagree.

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therelybare5@reddit

They also try to get your personal information like radio shack used to!

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karlhungusjr@reddit

???

i don't recall radio shack trying to get my personal information, but ok. I hope amazon is treating you well.

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therelybare5@reddit

Again, maybe my stores were slimier than yours. What made me mad about Radio Shack was they didn’t have a national database so each store I shopped at asked for name, phone number and physical address every time I shopped there.

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therelybare5@reddit

That’s your right, but that’s been my experience. I avoid talking to sales people because of it.

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karlhungusjr@reddit

my experience is sales people at places like circuit city and best buy are generic sales people who don't actually know anything about the products they're selling and instead are just there to push extended warranties.

the salespeople at microcenter at least are knowledge about their products.

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therelybare5@reddit

We can just agree to disagree. Or maybe my store is slimier than yours!

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ShadowsPrincess53@reddit

Holy crap!!! Showing my husband right now !!!

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Abraham_linksys49@reddit

A Tandy company

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bg370@reddit

10 PRINT “YOU SUCK” 20 GOTO 10

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Ahkhira@reddit

Lol!!!

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WayPowerful484@reddit

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12LetterName@reddit

?SYNTAX ERROR

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Miserable_Report891@reddit

I remember when they had the stand thing that you could test vacuum tubes in the store. No charge.

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PhilDGrowler@reddit

I bought all my headphones there.

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Late_Football_2517@reddit

What niche audio adapter plug did you find inside for $1.99?

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Grunge4U@reddit (OP)

That was actually the last time I bought anything in one. About 15 years ago I had to buy a wierd audio adapter for our sound system at work.

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Original_Study3415@reddit

We’ve still got one in the mall where I live. There’s not nearly as many things, and it’s actually kind of sad going inside, as it was my FAVORITE place to visit as a kid.

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Inner-Measurement441@reddit

Dinosaur

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IWantTheLastSlice@reddit

I worked at one from around 90-91

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jvlpdillon@reddit

I hated answering the phone, "You've got questions we've got answers"

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IWantTheLastSlice@reddit

Oh my god, I had i forgotten about those messages we had to answer the phone with.

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MulayamChaddi@reddit

Man I used to score there

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BastardofMadison@reddit

There’s one in Wisconsin Dells, as if it wasn’t already the greatest vacation spot on Earth.

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midnight_to_midnight@reddit

I saw one in Estes Park, CO a year or 2 ago. I didn't check to see if it was open, but the sign was still up.

I just went and checked on maps, and it's apparently closed now. The street view has a banner on it that says Store Closing. *

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OwnCryptographer1708@reddit

Did they ask for your phone number?

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Melodic_War327@reddit

https://www.radioshack.com/locations?srsltid=AfmBOoqGkkpaVd6h75ddOyNAC2nUDO2zapA_wtKIHu3nNk4HeTsZt2yf

Store the OP mentions is the first one that comes up. And they are apparently still chugging along and planning a comeback.

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